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An account book of Glannau Rhyddallt Friendly Society, containing particulars of annual payments due from individual members (monthly contributions, fines, death duties, for rules and tickets, for sashes and gloves, etc.), 1897-1898, 1904-1910.

An account book of Glannau Ifor Benefit Society, containing particulars of monthly contributions by individual members (arranged in alphabetical order of Christian names) and balance sheets, 1884-1887. Inset are sickness certificates, accounts, a circular in connection with a proposal to reform the Society, printed balance sheet, etc., 1884-1887 and undated.

A survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.

An essay entitled 'Celtic and Scandinavian genius seen in mythology and legend', by 'Atli'.

A transcript, made for William Roberts ('Nefydd') by an official copyist at the Bristol Baptist College, of the revised English version of the second part of Hanes y Bedyddwyr by Joshua Thomas.

A copy of J. R. Harris: Grisiau Cerdd Arwest with manuscript hymn-tunes and anthems.

A parole, signed by Sir Thomas Myddelton, 8 May 1645, to John Walcot, prisoner at the Red Castle, to travel to Walcot and return at the end of seven days, with a receipt by Thomas Myddelton for £50 for Walcot's ransome, 19 May 1645.

A collection of papers by William John Parry, C.B.E., Bethesda:- 'The public record of Alderman W. J. Parry'; 'Adgofion Taith i Dde America'; 'Hanes Symudiadau Llenyddol Bethesda a'r Cylch'; 'Tanymarian'; 'Scheme of Leasehold Enfranchisement taking the Cefnfaes Estate as a basis, 1924'; and a copy of a letter to Isaac Edwards, Merthyr, 1926.

Stanzas, written in 1826, by John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'):- 'A sentiment' (with music), 'The Scare-crow', and' Musicians and actors'.

Papers of Richard Jones, Wern, Llanfrothen, Calvinistic Methodist minister, relating to his appeal against the taxing of his horse (including letters by John Wilks), 1820-3; miscellaneous receipts, 1829-30; agreements relating to lead and copper mining in Llanfrothen, Llandecwyn, and Ffestiniog, 1828; draft letters concerning tax on a chapel and a house in Llanfihangel y Traethau; and a letter from Faney Jones to her brother, Robert Poole, at Egryn.

Thirteen letters in Welsh, c. 1861-1871, from Rees Williams, Sandy Creek, and his brother Thomas Williams, Carisbrook, both in Victoria, Australia, addressed to their cousin Rees Lewis (Ap Tudful, 1804-1886), Merthyr Tudful, printer, publisher and bookseller, together with two letters, 1863, one from Rees Williams to his father Daniel Williams, St Clears, carpenter, the other from John Thomas, St Clears, to Rees Lewis. The letters principally relate to sums of money owed to Rees and Thomas Williams but also include requests to Rees Lewis to send out Welsh hymn-books to Australia. Also included are a letter, 1857, from the Reverend David Charles Davies to ?Rees Lewis and two letters, 1863-1869, from Welsh emigrants in Pennsylvania.

Two awdlau by the Reverend Jonathan Machreth Rees ('Machreth', 1855-1911), London, entered for the chair competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Caernarfon, 1894, and Colwyn Bay, 1910.

Eleven letters, 1829-1834, from William Cobbett (1763-1835), journalist and politician, to William Williams (1788-1865), at the time a merchant of Watling Street, London, but later MP for Coventry and then for Lambeth, mainly concerning political matters.

Saith llythyr, 1966-1978, oddi wrth Dr Emyr Wyn Jones (Emyr Feddyg) at ei gyfaill, William John Jones, Gladstone, Aberdaron, gof y pentref, ynghyd ag erthygl fer o bosib yn llaw William Jones ei hun.

Minute-book of the Radnorshire Society, a small group of Radnorshire gentlemen living in London, from its inception in 1789 to its demise in 1812, reflecting the Society's main preoccupation, that of fostering agricultural improvements in Radnorshire by offering premiums, especially for the cultivation of turnips (see R. C. B. Oliver, The London Radnorshire Society, 1789-1812, and its Chief Officers, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 59 (1989), 79-89). The Society should not be confused with the Radnorshire Agricultural Society which was not established until 1809 (see W. H. House, Radnorshire Agricultural Societies, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 15 (1945), 28-32). The minute-book also contains the rules of the Society (ff. 2v-3v) and included is a resolution, 1791 (ff. 16, 17) to subscribe to a Welsh-English dictionary, probably that of John Walters published in London in 1794.

The first of six volumes of pocket diaries of the Reverend Thomas Roberts ('Scorpion', 1816-87) for 1845, 1869, 1881-1883 and 1885-1886 (using the printed Almanac a Dyddiadur (Llanrwst) for 1845, Y Dyddiadur or Dyddiadur Yr Annibynwyr for the other years). Brief daily entries in English, except for 1869 which was used only for accounts in 1869-71 and as a diary for January 1886. The 1845 diary records a year as a student at Brecon College; it includes reference to the execution of Thomas Thomas 'murderer of the butter merchant' on 10 April. The other volumes reflect life as a busy Independent minister in Llanrwst who was also post-master; there are references to building a new chapel ('New Tabernacl') in 1881-2, to frequent floods, to skating on the Conwy in the hard winter of 1881, to denominational and literary friends, notably Dr William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog') and W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'). The diaries also include accounts, with some details of the sale of Scorpion's publications, and sermon notes in Welsh. On the flyleaf of MS 22358 is a priced list of books including 'MSS Copy of Brut y Brenhinoedd' valued at £10.5s.

The last of three volumes containing indexed transcripts by Mrs Mary A. Jones, Johannesburg, of poetry in Welsh by her uncle Richard Williams (Gwydderig, 1842-1917).

Ten letters in Latin, 1762-1764, from Laurent Theodor Gronovius, Dutch naturalist, to Thomas Pennant, traveller and naturalist, mainly relating to their natural history studies and exchanges of books and specimens.

A catalogue of the library at Easton Court, co. Hereford, illustrated with skilfully executed pen-and-ink vignettes. The volume may well have been compiled and illustrated by Sir Joseph Russell Bailey (1840-1906), 2nd baronet and 1st baron Glanusk, shortly before the death of his grandfather, Sir Joseph Bailey, the first baronet, in 1858. The frontispiece bears the name J. Bailey, one vignette depicts an event in 1856 (f. 6v) and no books published after 1858 appear to be catalogued.